Many
thanks to those who came to
join us
at the teleconference! We had a
great showing.
Twenty-five colleagues signed in
from the departments of CEUS, EALC, FRIT,
Germanic Studies,
HISP, Language
Education, SLAV, SLS, TLTC, and WEST.
The
teleconference went well without
a technical glitch.
We were thankful for the beautiful performance of CeLTIE’s
new video
projector and Roger Crandall’s
excellent technical support.

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"Bravo! Thank you so much for
organizing the teleconference for us! In
past years, occasionally one person from one
language has "gotten it together"
to
set up a viewing of that annual (and
valuable) teleconference over in Radio and
Television. At best, a few people from
one or two different departments would
attend, simply because whoever was
organizing didn't really have the time or
even sense of who might be interested in
other language programs to publicize
(no centralized email list for program
directors and coordinators, and not even
any sense of who was in that community).
That you were able to organize the
teleconference and attend to the technical
details and publicity from a more
central
position vis a vis all
language programs made it so much more
successful
and meaningful. The fact that many of
us
have now shared the experience of
getting to "attend" a national conference
via satellite hearing from national experts
on Online Language Learning gives us a
common basis for discussion of related ideas
locally on our campus. For
interested
members, it might even be good to schedule
a follow-up gathering to discuss ideas for implementation /
innovation on our own
classes, or just discuss period! (Kind
of like a book group discussing a book
they've
all read
together). Finally, I'd also
like to say that the physical set-up you
arranged
was great. BH 004 is a nice
comfortable
room, projecting to a large
screen worked
great and made for easy visibility, and, as
you said, everything went very
smoothly--
no technical glitches. I am already
excited about sharing next year's
teleconference
with colleagues!
CeLTIE's "hosting" of the
satellite conference was a great success,
a perfect example of the kind of thing that
wasn't
happening before but that you are
making it happen now.
Thanks again (and also for making the
teleconference available
after the fact on the CeLTIE website)!"
- Kelly Sax |